EB Preview :: Lusotannan

[Krusader]

Greetings Europa Barbarorum fans.

As some of you might know we announced a third faction some time back. And as some of you might have suspected, it's the Lusitanians or in EB, Lusotannan. Thus the Iberian faction will be focused entirely on the Lusotannan, one of the most known ancient Iberian tribes, if not most known, who made the Iberian peninsula an ill-favoured place to be for any Roman legionnaire during the Roman republic and early empire. This means the Lusotannan will only start with the Lusitania province in western Iberia and the former Celtiberian province will instead be a rebel allied one.
But you think we would announce a preview with only this as the announcement? No of course not. A lot of work has gone into the Lusotannan and you can see the new units below.
Enjoy!!

And of course, many many thanks to Aymar de Bois Mauri for the work on units and the faction itself. Teleklos Archelaou for his work on graphics. But our biggest thanks goes to Sarcasm who has done a tremendous effort on descriptions and research and without him, this faction wouldn't have been so far, and also to Anthony who helped with making a "Lusitanian language" based on Indo-European and it's relationship to the Celtic language variants in play in this region.

Factional units


Iovamann:



Caetranann:



Gestikapoinann:



Scortamareva:



Ambakaro:



Ambakaro Epones:

Iberian Regional units


Balearic Light Infantry:




Balearic Slingers:




Dosidataskeli:




Loricati Scutari:




Iberi Lanceari:

Some ingame screenshots of the new standards for Lusotannan and Iberian rebels




Here are the banners for everyone:

First the EB Member (only) signature banner:


Then the smaller one you can put in a sig banner with other ones too:


And if you like userbars instead, here is that:


As always, if you have questions or comments, the best place to post them is here, where the EB team is most active:

Europa Barbarorum ORG forum

Europa Barbarorum TWC forum

We give special thanks to Imageshack that provides us with a simple, foolproof, and free way to show you all these pictures each week.

Have a great day!


Sincerely,

The Europa Barbarorum team.

[Justiciar]

Bloody hell teh sexeh.

[Dram]

im blown away by how sweet this is dude

absolutely awesome

is the Loricati Scutari on the left... the one wearing the roman style armour as apposed to the bronze scale, is that a unit for other factions to recruit if they conquer the Lusitanian region?

im really excited now, cant wait for 0.8

[Justiciar]

is the Loricati Scutari on the left... the one wearing the roman style armour as apposed to the bronze scale, is that a unit for other factions to recruit if they conquer the Lusitanian region?

They're the Carthaginian version. It says as much at the top of the picture.

[scourgeofrome]

Nice.Now get back to work (I just love using these smilies)

[Dram]

They're the Carthaginian version. It says as much at the top of the picture.

i must of lost myself in my excitement, thanks.

[Olaf The Great]

What are those units that look like Cataphracts on Foot?


And how will the Lancarii unit compare to Cataphracts?

Also can you give us the stats on the units?


You know what?
Screw Saka Rauka!
I'm using the Lustianii!

[Sdragon]

Great stuff! Iberia just became interesting, it'll be a heck of a steup from the last build.

[Antagonist]

Very nice, the quality of the unit graphics themselves is top-notch, can't wait to see them in-game.

I find the names etc. very interesting also. I always meant to ask why EB's Iberian units had such latin-sounding names, these ones sound a lot more indigenous. The "ann" has a vaguely Q-Celtic ring to it.

Any chance of seeing some faction or unit descriptions though? Or will we have to wait? Hopefully not for too long.

Antagonist

[MSB]

Now get back to work!

[iberus_generalis]

Go EB!!! GO EB!!!

Viva o Orgulho Luso!! há mais de dois mil anos a desafiar as potencias invasoras!!=)
Long live the Lusitanian Pride!! For more than two Thousand years defying incoming invanding powers!!=)
give them what they need!! =)
how lucky i was for me to come to the net before going to the university city...=) go EB!!!

BTW will we replace the iberia faction or are we gonna be another faction in iberia? it would be fun to have two factions here=)

now im definetly going on to 0.8...just hope there are at least 47 model slots for the units i added to my 0.74.... this just got interesting=)

where can i get a banner of this new faction? i wanna show off my pride in being a descendent of this people...

[Gazius]

This means the Lusotannan will only start with the Lusitania province in western Iberia and the former Celtiberian province will instead be a rebel allied one.

Er, how does this work? Are they simply not at war with the rebels? Actually allied?

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

Er, how does this work? Are they simply not at war with the rebels? Actually allied?

Yes, through the clever art of our scripter: Attilius. We also can't forget the trait work of BozosLivesHere and the former responsibles and auxiliaries in these two areas. Praise them.

[soibean]

is that why the iberian faction doesnt expand? because in my romani game Ive expanded to the lands that the roman republic had except for the lands of carthage by about 265 and the Lusotannan havent moved beyond their initial province.

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

is that why the iberian faction doesnt expand? because in my romani game Ive expanded to the lands that the roman republic had except for the lands of carthage by about 265 and the Lusotannan havent moved beyond their initial province.

No. The script is only in regard to the rebels in Celtiberia because in that period there were several periods of alliance against invaders between those two tribal confedarations.

[Dux Corvanus]

Aymar! Where are my Cantabrii? And quit that puny Vascii thing from my sight... it hurts my feet. (Hope you don't forget who are in the chronicles and who exist mostly in nationalistic propaganda).

Ready to be back. So many things I must be updated, though, I see...

I'd be back earlier, but my "raspy, not to your taste" mother tongue has sored my throat lately. As I can't speak that sleazy, greasy sounding gibberish you, homo pastoralis et latro, do talk...

See u soon in the 'secret chamber'...

"I shall be loved when I'm lack'd" (Coriolanus, Act VI)